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| | Beers: Reed p. 1015 |
 | | JOHN REED (deceased) was a son of David Reed, one of the earliest pioneers of Washington county, Penn. David Reed, who was of Scotch-Irish descent, and a native of Lancaster county, Penn., about the year 1777 came with a brother, John, to Washington county. |
 | | In 1826 John Reed was married to Jane May, a native of Cecil township, this county, and daughter of John and Phoebe (Ross) May, who were born in Lancaster county, Penn., and after their marriage settled in Cecil township, where they lived and died. |
 | | Their children were Alexander (married in Cecil township), David (farmer of Cecil township), Mary (wife of George Murray, Chartiers township), John, James (formerly a jeweler of Washington, afterward living in Pittsburgh, Penn.) and Joseph (deceased in 1888, formerly lived on the old homestead in Cecil township). |
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